Mac Windows blah blah... the REAL question to me is how did it get there? as you point out, made in China. Think this one through in terms of balance of trade, marketing and manufacturing clout, and future product deals. Could this have been a feeler on how to inject another and even more disturbing piece of code into the infustructure? Or, mayhaps I am just too cynical...
well since she was using weasel words, pity she was too broke to hire a weasel to say it right. It takes a trained legal person to spot these clear descriptive english terms and set us all right. Goodness me! there's no place like home! there's no place like home! Oops! I used "home" and I am sure that has a legal meaning. kaCHING!
Sometime in pre-history, it was noticed that many things like; dried marigold petals and spider web staunches blood. It was common practice to bleed patients at one time, and when the leech was removed, spider web was used as a poltice. I have personally used spider web on cuts, and it stops the flow in seconds. I should have applied for a research grant dang it!
I always figure that end of support meant Microsoft determined they finally got it right, and why mess with perfection? SP2 otoh is still a work in progress...and does it need more work...
Indeed. also Man who Sold the Moon. Also, if you rememeber 1962: Fireball XL5 http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html -There is a model of the mag lift launcher on that page. The concept has been there for years. Sure it would not work for transporting passengers, but supplies? Chucking O2 cans, rocket fuel, even space food and station building parts into low orbit would become very cost effective.
Record companies gouge? I will have you know the one and only album I had rights to that I am on sold a good 100k copies and to this day I still have a photocopy of my one and only $20 royalty check. Gouge? I WISH it was only a gouge! Gouge, gore, rip consume, spit out and/or defecate. Then they hit you up for manufacturing costs and you end up owing THEM!
If you read of Fortian, as in Charles Fort stuff, you will recall the case of some coal miners in the 19th century who cracked open a seam and out hops a millions years old frog. That seems like pretty soft, survivng soft tissue there.. Fort refered to sch cases as "Damned Things' as in anomolies that went against all known and accepted knowledge. Ask honest paleontologists about the various fossils and artifacts that are in the basement and back warehouses of most major collections; weirder then Piltdown and one might think hidden to avoid similar results...and red faces...
File sharing and RIAA law suits have no relationship to each other. the legal actiosn are self-feeding lawyer leech aka license to print money. It actually matters not at all if you have file shared. Once they typo your IP on a complaint..you are out their perscribed 4-5 thousand and off they run to the next victim... Certainly you can get your own leech and fight it. Unless you are a zillionaire all you will get is two leeches for the price of 10. Guilty? Innocent? Does it matter? "Winners" loose all, Loosers loose a few grand. It is nice that scholars can cash in too on this to provide more PR; keeping the issue in the spotlight. Leeches need the PR to keep the money engine primed.
When it comes to axes to grind, I prefer reading peer reviewed discussions, but then I am weird that way: Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57 This presents one possible argument. There are others. Some have funding from here, some from there.. Almost every scientist worth his lab coat will include the magic expression "Needs More Study" somewhere his peers (and grant committee) can see.
Learn from the Gub'mint: 1 require by law that Joe Citizen provide name address physical data, etc 2 compile list of same 3. sell it 4 apologise for any problems that arise 5 stir and repeat
Well for one I go to www.archive.org and download from there. the Prellinger collection has a massive store of older industrial films (I am a documentary junkie and would far rather watch a discussion of steel production then some starlet describing her sex life). If you like public domain feature films they have those as well. CERN has downloadable lectures on their site, there are also several universites that host such.
On pbs.org you find things like NerdTV which can be downloaded. BBC has a wealth of material. MANY Indie films such as the Star Trek fan film (check out www.starwreck.com), and related can be found. Just Google "Indie Film", lecture + video, or the like. The Net is full of cool stuff that is not "stolen".
The fact is, if your tastes do not run to the CRAP now playing on a channel near you and brought to you by Fish Oil Deoderant and the like... you can find real content! I gave up on network televison sometime in the early 1980s and never looked back.
Oh and as I said I have DVD, Laserdisc, VHS (and Beta). I also "rip" these to my Macs. Mayhaps not HD quality, but good enough for my tastes.
For a couple of years now I have used an Elgato EyeHome (www.elgato.com). This wonderful gadget outputs to a TV anb inputs from a RJ45. It feeds video content across a network from my Macs (and PCs with a little software voodoo) to the television and even comes with a lazy man's remote control. It works wired or wireless Several other boxes taylored to the PC side also are available but the EyeHome is sleeker cooler, works with a Mac and is cheap (mine was under 200 bucks iirc). It will play most codecs, and with some video tools, you can manipulate those movies which will not play, re-encoding in a format that will. I do not have cable, and never have. I do not watch broadcat televison and if I did not have the Eyehome I would fall back on DVD, Laserdisc, VHS, or just read a book. For at least twenty years the alternative of broadcast television has NOT been an alternative to my tastes at all. Thnak goodness today there are so many ways to get media. Check out the EyeHome and similar systems. It frankly: Rulz! and it is an available alternative...today.
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Today we received the outcome of a local election. Here in Oregon we "Vote By Mail" so since we are free from the risks of electronic ballots, other means must be found to "be creative". Some of the highlights of my experience:
First this election had no fanfare, no media emphasis, it just showed up in the mail one day... AS the subject dealt with increases to city coffers it is understandable the want as few people discussing it ahead of time. Next a large format postcard shows saying "Uh oh! we mailed you the ballot in the wrong envelope." This was a "get out of jail free" ploy in that, if the election goes in a way unwanted (people say hell no!), they can get a local weasel in suit to file on it and invalidate the election. Next trick: The DAY BEFORE the election, and after I had mailed in my ballot, I get a letter from the election commission that my signature card signature looks nothing like the one on the ballot envelope. "Here, fill out this new voter registration card." Thus, my ballot could be discounted presumably. As I voted against this foolishness, and as it PASSED WITH AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY! -saith the local fish wrap, this raises some questions... But then, such are the fruits of life in this Democracy...
Using other means then electronics for tabulation do not guarantee a free election, it is just that electronic voting has the potential to make it easier then the traditional means of fraud. Progress?
Since support (that is managment mucking with it) has been dropped,it might just be the oportunity we have been lookin for to upgrade to the one stable Microsoft product: Windows 98
As I have no dog in either fight, not being a member of either major party, I think my statement stands. I do not know why one party does or does not do as you suggest. I would suggest.....ask them...
any Administration does. Corruption and mis-managment is not owned by any one party or group. poli: many tics: small blood sucking creatures. politics Its time to kick the bad guys out and put our bad guys in!
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Mac Windows blah blah... the REAL question to me is how did it get there? as you point out, made in China. Think this one through in terms of balance of trade, marketing and manufacturing clout, and future product deals. Could this have been a feeler on how to inject another and even more disturbing piece of code into the infustructure? Or, mayhaps I am just too cynical...
I know! lets call one group Eloi and the other...oh...say Morlocks!
after all...you are who you eat...
well since she was using weasel words, pity she was too broke to hire a weasel to say it right. It takes a trained legal person to spot these clear descriptive english terms and set us all right. Goodness me! there's no place like home! there's no place like home! Oops! I used "home" and I am sure that has a legal meaning. kaCHING!
Sometime in pre-history, it was noticed that many things like; dried marigold petals and spider web staunches blood. It was common practice to bleed patients at one time, and when the leech was removed, spider web was used as a poltice. I have personally used spider web on cuts, and it stops the flow in seconds. I should have applied for a research grant dang it!
I always figure that end of support meant Microsoft determined they finally got it right, and why mess with perfection? SP2 otoh is still a work in progress...and does it need more work...
up the side of Pikes Peak? a mag train of some 20+ miles length?
Indeed. also Man who Sold the Moon. Also, if you rememeber 1962: Fireball XL5 http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html -There is a model of the mag lift launcher on that page. The concept has been there for years. Sure it would not work for transporting passengers, but supplies? Chucking O2 cans, rocket fuel, even space food and station building parts into low orbit would become very cost effective.
Record companies gouge? I will have you know the one and only album I had rights to that I am on sold a good 100k copies and to this day I still have a photocopy of my one and only $20 royalty check. Gouge? I WISH it was only a gouge! Gouge, gore, rip consume, spit out and/or defecate. Then they hit you up for manufacturing costs and you end up owing THEM!
This just in: reports of a trend to offshore Economists. -Globalization BAD BAD BAD!
45 light years and there STILL is nothing on to watch!
If you read of Fortian, as in Charles Fort stuff, you will recall the case of some coal miners in the 19th century who cracked open a seam and out hops a millions years old frog. That seems like pretty soft, survivng soft tissue there.. Fort refered to sch cases as "Damned Things' as in anomolies that went against all known and accepted knowledge. Ask honest paleontologists about the various fossils and artifacts that are in the basement and back warehouses of most major collections; weirder then Piltdown and one might think hidden to avoid similar results...and red faces...
Now, had the kid only focused the lessons to be learned from taking a coffee break......
Another day, another devalued dollar...
File sharing and RIAA law suits have no relationship to each other. the legal actiosn are self-feeding lawyer leech aka license to print money. It actually matters not at all if you have file shared. Once they typo your IP on a complaint..you are out their perscribed 4-5 thousand and off they run to the next victim... Certainly you can get your own leech and fight it. Unless you are a zillionaire all you will get is two leeches for the price of 10. Guilty? Innocent? Does it matter? "Winners" loose all, Loosers loose a few grand.
It is nice that scholars can cash in too on this to provide more PR; keeping the issue in the spotlight. Leeches need the PR to keep the money engine primed.
Why does this remind me of an announcement of the Osborne II while standing in front of a full warehouse of Osborne Is?
When it comes to axes to grind, I prefer reading peer reviewed discussions, but then I am weird that way:
Handler P., and K. Andsager, 1994: El-Niño, Volcanism, and Global Climate. Human Ecology, 22, 37-57
This presents one possible argument. There are others. Some have funding from here, some from there.. Almost every scientist worth his lab coat will include the magic expression "Needs More Study" somewhere his peers (and grant committee) can see.
Learn from the Gub'mint:
1 require by law that Joe Citizen provide name address physical data, etc
2 compile list of same
3. sell it
4 apologise for any problems that arise
5 stir and repeat
Well for one I go to www.archive.org and download from there. the Prellinger collection has a massive store of older industrial films (I am a documentary junkie and would far rather watch a discussion of steel production then some starlet describing her sex life). If you like public domain feature films they have those as well. CERN has downloadable lectures on their site, there are also several universites that host such.
On pbs.org you find things like NerdTV which can be downloaded. BBC has a wealth of material.
MANY Indie films such as the Star Trek fan film (check out www.starwreck.com), and related can be found. Just Google "Indie Film", lecture + video, or the like. The Net is full of cool stuff that is not "stolen".
The fact is, if your tastes do not run to the CRAP now playing on a channel near you and brought to you by Fish Oil Deoderant and the like... you can find real content! I gave up on network televison sometime in the early 1980s and never looked back.
Oh and as I said I have DVD, Laserdisc, VHS (and Beta). I also "rip" these to my Macs. Mayhaps not HD quality, but good enough for my tastes.
For a couple of years now I have used an Elgato EyeHome (www.elgato.com). This wonderful gadget outputs to a TV anb inputs from a RJ45. It feeds video content across a network from my Macs (and PCs with a little software voodoo) to the television and even comes with a lazy man's remote control. It works wired or wireless Several other boxes taylored to the PC side also are available but the EyeHome is sleeker cooler, works with a Mac and is cheap (mine was under 200 bucks iirc). It will play most codecs, and with some video tools, you can manipulate those movies which will not play, re-encoding in a format that will. I do not have cable, and never have. I do not watch broadcat televison and if I did not have the Eyehome I would fall back on DVD, Laserdisc, VHS, or just read a book. For at least twenty years the alternative of broadcast television has NOT been an alternative to my tastes at all. Thnak goodness today there are so many ways to get media. Check out the EyeHome and similar systems. It frankly: Rulz! and it is an available alternative...today.
Today we received the outcome of a local election. Here in Oregon we "Vote By Mail" so since we are free from the risks of electronic ballots, other means must be found to "be creative". Some of the highlights of my experience:
First this election had no fanfare, no media emphasis, it just showed up in the mail one day... AS the subject dealt with increases to city coffers it is understandable the want as few people discussing it ahead of time.
Next a large format postcard shows saying "Uh oh! we mailed you the ballot in the wrong envelope." This was a "get out of jail free" ploy in that, if the election goes in a way unwanted (people say hell no!), they can get a local weasel in suit to file on it and invalidate the election.
Next trick: The DAY BEFORE the election, and after I had mailed in my ballot, I get a letter from the election commission that my signature card signature looks nothing like the one on the ballot envelope. "Here, fill out this new voter registration card."
Thus, my ballot could be discounted presumably. As I voted against this foolishness, and as it PASSED WITH AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY! -saith the local fish wrap, this raises some questions...
But then, such are the fruits of life in this Democracy...
Using other means then electronics for tabulation do not guarantee a free election, it is just that electronic voting has the potential to make it easier then the traditional means of fraud. Progress?
Since support (that is managment mucking with it) has been dropped,it might just be the oportunity we have been lookin for to upgrade to the one stable Microsoft product: Windows 98
Forgive! It was the Eye Candy what made me do it!
It is common after a full meal to feel bloated....
As I have no dog in either fight, not being a member of either major party, I think my statement stands. I do not know why one party does or does not do as you suggest. I would suggest.....ask them...
any Administration does. Corruption and mis-managment is not owned by any one party or group.
poli: many
tics: small blood sucking creatures.
politics
Its time to kick the bad guys out and put our bad guys in!